Sara Genevieve Camp Powell

Sara Genevieve Camp Powell of Newnan, Georgia, died Saturday, August 19, 2017 at Newnan Health & Rehabilitation at the age of 99.

A private service was held graveside on the morning of August 27, 2017 at Oak Hill Cemetery.

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The daughter of Lizzie Delle Couch and John Arthur Russell Camp, Mrs. Powell was born on August 6, 1918 in Moreland, Georgia. She moved to Nimmons Street with her family when she was a young child. Mrs. Powell resided there until she attended Georgia State College for Women in Milledgeville, Georgia.

After the death of her father in 1936, she returned to Newnan and worked as a billing clerk at Arnco Mills. She married Lewis Albert Powell in 1942, and together they raised their family on Nimmons Street, up the street from her childhood home. Mr. Powell preceded her in death in 1974.

Mrs. Powell was a dedicated member of the First United Methodist Church where she taught Bible and Sunday school. She had a love of gardening, an interest she inherited from her mother and grandmother. Family and church were most important to her.

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